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The modern progressive movement is, in most ways, directly opposed to the classical liberalism of the Enlightenment.
Despite this, progressives are happy to allow people to call them liberals because of the fine reputation of liberalism.
Cultural Libertarians: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/24/rise-of-the-cultural-libertarians/
Further information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFnd6IS0DrY&list=PLM9L2W5aOI_1c9VBdAi6efQAZPoZ-UcdC
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published:04 Sep 2015

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Enlightenment is a traditionally mystical and slippery concept, but when it is subjected to the rigors of empirical analysis, there is a lot to be learned about our brains and ourselves. Dr. Andrew Newberg, who has put enlightenment through a battery of scientific tests, says there are actually two kinds of enlightenment: lowercase-e enlightenment, which changes our opinions about the world, and Enlightenment, which changes our essence, i.e. how we think of life, death, God, etc.
Capital-e Enlightenment is notable because of how people report the experience anecdotally and how it changes the brain. Whatever sensation accompanies the experience of Enlightenment — whether light, or music, or color — it tends to be the most intense experience a person has had with that element. And this intensity is reflected in the brain's limbic system, which processes emotion, and its parietal lobe, which organizes our sensory information to create sensations of time, space, and self.
When people experience Enlightenment, they frequently report losing their sense of self, and scientific analysis confirms that brain activity is a driving cause of this sensation. And while Enlightenment is typically associated with religious individuals like Mother Teresa or the Buddha, people from all walks of life experience essence-changing events — sometimes just walking down the street, says Newberg.
What's more, these experiences can be purposefully induced through the use of pharmacological substances like LSD or hallucinogenic mushrooms. And while these experiences may seem aberrant from so-called real life, Dr. Newberg argues that we come hard-wired ready to have them. Perhaps Enlightenment experiences are like a pair of glasses, he says: we are born into the world with bad vision until we experience corrective lenses. Whether these lenses are applied to our eyes or to our brains may matter little in an epistemological sense.
Newberg's latest book is How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain: TheNew Science of Transformationhttp://www.indiebound.org/book/9781594633454
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/andrew-newberg-neural-enlightenment-101
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published:08 May 2016

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This audiobook edition of Explaining Postmodernism is read by the author.
To listen to more of the audiobook on YouTube, visit: http://www.youtube.com/user/EPAudiobook
To download MP3s of the audiobook or for more information, visit Dr. Stephen Hicks's Explaining Postmodernism page:
http://www.stephenhicks.org/publications/explaining-postmodernism/

published:15 Apr 2013

views:287

In which John Green examines the French Revolution, and gets into how and why it differed from the American Revolution. Was it the serial authoritarian regimes? The guillotine? The Reign of Terror? All of this and more contributed to the French Revolution not being quite as revolutionary as it could have been. France endured multiple constitutions, the heads of heads of state literally rolled, and then they ended up with a megalomaniacal little emperor by the name of Napoleon. But how did all of this change the world, and how did it lead to other, more successful revolutions around the world? Watch this video and find out. Spoiler alert: Marie Antoinette never said, "Let them eat cake." Sorry.
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Thomas Hobbes believed that it is always better to have security rather than liberty in a country. He was therefore deeply opposed to the English Civil War – and would have predicted the chaos of the Arab Spring. Please subscribe here: http://tinyurl.com/o28mut7
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Liberal

Liberal may refer to:

Politics

Liberalism, is a political philosophy or worldview founded on ideas of liberty and equality. The former principle is stressed in classical liberalism while the latter is more evident in social liberalism.

Classical liberalism, a political or social philosophy advocating the freedom of the individual, parliamentary systems of government, nonviolent modification of political, social, or economic institutions to assure unrestricted development in all spheres of human endeavor, and governmental guarantees of individual rights and civil liberties.

Conservative liberalism, a variant of liberalism, combining liberal values and policies with conservative stances, or, more simply, representing the right-wing of the liberal movement

Economic liberalism, the ideological belief in organizing the economy on individualist lines, such that the greatest possible number of economic decisions are made by private individuals and not by collective institutions.

Social liberalism, the belief that liberalism should include social justice and that the legitimate role of the state includes addressing issues such as unemployment, health care, education, and the expansion of civil rights

Meaning of the term

The term classical liberalism was applied in retrospect to distinguish earlier 19th-century liberalism from the newer social liberalism. The phrase classical liberalism is also sometimes used to refer to all forms of liberalism before the 20th century, and some conservatives and libertarians use the term classical liberalism to describe their belief in the primacy of individual freedom and minimal government. It is not always clear which meaning is intended.

Crash Course

Plot

Crash Course centers on a group of high schoolers in a driver’s education class; many for the second or third time. The recently divorced teacher, super-passive Larry Pearl, is on thin ice with the football fanatic principal, Principal Paulson, who is being pressured by the district superintendent to raise driver’s education completion rates or lose his coveted football program. With this in mind, Principal Paulson and his assistant, with a secret desire for his job, Abner Frasier, hire an outside driver’s education instructor with a very tough reputation, Edna Savage, aka E.W. Savage, who quickly takes control of the class.

The plot focuses mostly on the students and their interactions with their teachers and each other. In the beginning, Rico is the loner with just a few friends, Chadley is the bookish nerd with few friends who longs to be cool and also longs to be a part of Vanessa’s life who is the young, friendly and attractive girl who had to fake her mother’s signature on her driver’s education permission slip. Kichi is the hip-hop Asian kid who often raps what he has to say and constantly flirts with Maria, the rich foreign girl who thinks that the right-of-way on the roadways always goes to (insert awesomely fake foreign Latino accent) “my father’s limo”. Finally you have stereotypical football meathead J.J., who needs to pass his English exam to keep his eligibility and constantly asks out and gets rejected by Alice, the tomboy whose father owns “Santini & Son” Concrete Company. Alice is portrayed as being the “son” her father wanted.

As political activity, international relations dates from the time of the Greek historian Thucydides (c. 460–395 BC), and, in the early 20th century, became a discrete academic field (No. 5901 in the 4-digit UNESCO Nomenclature) within political science. In practice International Relations and International Affairs forms a separate academic program or field from Political Science, and the courses taught therein are highly interdisciplinary.

POLITICAL THEORY - John Locke

John Locke's greatness as a philosopher is based on his theories on childhood, his work on religious toleration and his concept of the rights of citizens. He helped to make us who we are. If you like our films take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): http://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/all/
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Illiberal Progressives

The modern progressive movement is, in most ways, directly opposed to the classical liberalism of the Enlightenment.
Despite this, progressives are happy to allow people to call them liberals because of the fine reputation of liberalism.
Cultural Libertarians: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/24/rise-of-the-cultural-libertarians/
Further information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFnd6IS0DrY&list=PLM9L2W5aOI_1c9VBdAi6efQAZPoZ-UcdC
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9:23

The Neuroscience of Enlightenment, with Dr. Andrew Newberg

The Neuroscience of Enlightenment, with Dr. Andrew Newberg

The Neuroscience of Enlightenment, with Dr. Andrew Newberg

Enlightenment is a traditionally mystical and slippery concept, but when it is subjected to the rigors of empirical analysis, there is a lot to be learned about our brains and ourselves. Dr. Andrew Newberg, who has put enlightenment through a battery of scientific tests, says there are actually two kinds of enlightenment: lowercase-e enlightenment, which changes our opinions about the world, and Enlightenment, which changes our essence, i.e. how we think of life, death, God, etc.
Capital-e Enlightenment is notable because of how people report the experience anecdotally and how it changes the brain. Whatever sensation accompanies the experience of Enlightenment — whether light, or music, or color — it tends to be the most intense experience a person has had with that element. And this intensity is reflected in the brain's limbic system, which processes emotion, and its parietal lobe, which organizes our sensory information to create sensations of time, space, and self.
When people experience Enlightenment, they frequently report losing their sense of self, and scientific analysis confirms that brain activity is a driving cause of this sensation. And while Enlightenment is typically associated with religious individuals like Mother Teresa or the Buddha, people from all walks of life experience essence-changing events — sometimes just walking down the street, says Newberg.
What's more, these experiences can be purposefully induced through the use of pharmacological substances like LSD or hallucinogenic mushrooms. And while these experiences may seem aberrant from so-called real life, Dr. Newberg argues that we come hard-wired ready to have them. Perhaps Enlightenment experiences are like a pair of glasses, he says: we are born into the world with bad vision until we experience corrective lenses. Whether these lenses are applied to our eyes or to our brains may matter little in an epistemological sense.
Newberg's latest book is How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain: TheNew Science of Transformationhttp://www.indiebound.org/book/9781594633454
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/andrew-newberg-neural-enlightenment-101
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2:09

Enlightenment reason, liberalism, and science

Enlightenment reason, liberalism, and science

Enlightenment reason, liberalism, and science

This audiobook edition of Explaining Postmodernism is read by the author.
To listen to more of the audiobook on YouTube, visit: http://www.youtube.com/user/EPAudiobook
To download MP3s of the audiobook or for more information, visit Dr. Stephen Hicks's Explaining Postmodernism page:
http://www.stephenhicks.org/publications/explaining-postmodernism/

11:54

The French Revolution: Crash Course World History #29

The French Revolution: Crash Course World History #29

The French Revolution: Crash Course World History #29

In which John Green examines the French Revolution, and gets into how and why it differed from the American Revolution. Was it the serial authoritarian regimes? The guillotine? The Reign of Terror? All of this and more contributed to the French Revolution not being quite as revolutionary as it could have been. France endured multiple constitutions, the heads of heads of state literally rolled, and then they ended up with a megalomaniacal little emperor by the name of Napoleon. But how did all of this change the world, and how did it lead to other, more successful revolutions around the world? Watch this video and find out. Spoiler alert: Marie Antoinette never said, "Let them eat cake." Sorry.
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Thermidor (which is this month) is Revolutions month on Crash Course!
The American Revolution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlUiSBXQHCw
Coming soon:
#30 - Haitian Revolution
#31 - Latin American Revolutions
#32 - Industrial RevolutionSupport Crash Course on Patreon: http://patreon.com/crashcourse

International Relations – Liberal Theory (2/7)

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ProfessorAndrew Moravscik from Princeton University discusses Liberal theory
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6:46

POLITICAL THEORY - Thomas Hobbes

POLITICAL THEORY - Thomas Hobbes

POLITICAL THEORY - Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes believed that it is always better to have security rather than liberty in a country. He was therefore deeply opposed to the English Civil War – and would have predicted the chaos of the Arab Spring. Please subscribe here: http://tinyurl.com/o28mut7
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POLITICAL THEORY - Adam Smith

Adam Smith was no uncritical apologist for capitalism: he wanted to understand how capitalism could be both fruitful and good.
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Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data: In seventy-five jaw-dropping graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. This progress is not the result of some cosmic force. It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing.
Far from being a naïve hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. The Enlightenment project swims against currents of human nature — tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, magical thinking — which demagogues are all too willing to exploit. Many commentators, committed to political, religious, or romantic ideologies, fight a rearguard action against it. The result is a corrosive fatalism and a willingness to wreck the precious institutions of liberal democracy and global cooperation.
With intellectual depth and literary flair, Enlightenment Now makes the case for reason, science, and humanism: the ideals we need to confront our problems and continue our progress.

POLITICAL THEORY - John Locke

John Locke's greatness as a philosopher is based on his theories on childhood, his work on religious toleration and his concept of the rights of citizens. He helped to make us who we are. If you like our films take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): http://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/all/
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Illiberal Progressives

The modern progressive movement is, in most ways, directly opposed to the classical liberalism of the Enlightenment.
Despite this, progressives are happy to allow people to call them liberals because of the fine reputation of liberalism.
Cultural Libertarians: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/24/rise-of-the-cultural-libertarians/
Further information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFnd6IS0DrY&list=PLM9L2W5aOI_1c9VBdAi6efQAZPoZ-UcdC
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published: 04 Sep 2015

The Neuroscience of Enlightenment, with Dr. Andrew Newberg

Enlightenment is a traditionally mystical and slippery concept, but when it is subjected to the rigors of empirical analysis, there is a lot to be learned about our brains and ourselves. Dr. Andrew Newberg, who has put enlightenment through a battery of scientific tests, says there are actually two kinds of enlightenment: lowercase-e enlightenment, which changes our opinions about the world, and Enlightenment, which changes our essence, i.e. how we think of life, death, God, etc.
Capital-e Enlightenment is notable because of how people report the experience anecdotally and how it changes the brain. Whatever sensation accompanies the experience of Enlightenment — whether light, or music, or color — it tends to be the most intense experience a person has had with that element. And this inte...

published: 08 May 2016

Enlightenment reason, liberalism, and science

This audiobook edition of Explaining Postmodernism is read by the author.
To listen to more of the audiobook on YouTube, visit: http://www.youtube.com/user/EPAudiobook
To download MP3s of the audiobook or for more information, visit Dr. Stephen Hicks's Explaining Postmodernism page:
http://www.stephenhicks.org/publications/explaining-postmodernism/

International Relations – Liberal Theory (2/7)

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---
ProfessorAndrew Moravscik from Princeton University discusses Liberal theory
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Playlist link – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXllDh6rD18&list=PLhQpDGfX5e7C6FA5IYU3VPYN7kWHl1mxQ
Transcript –
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---
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published: 03 Oct 2014

POLITICAL THEORY - Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes believed that it is always better to have security rather than liberty in a country. He was therefore deeply opposed to the English Civil War – and would have predicted the chaos of the Arab Spring. Please subscribe here: http://tinyurl.com/o28mut7
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POLITICAL THEORY - Adam Smith

Adam Smith was no uncritical apologist for capitalism: he wanted to understand how capitalism could be both fruitful and good.
If you like our films take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): http://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/all/
SUBSCRIBE to our channel for new films every week: http://tinyurl.com/o28mut7
Brought to you by http://www.theschooloflife.com
Produced in collaboration with Mike Booth
http://www.YouTube.com/SomeGreyBloke

Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data: In seventy-five jaw-dropping graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. This progress is not the result of some cosmic force. It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing.
Far from being a naïve hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. The ...

POLITICAL THEORY - John Locke

John Locke's greatness as a philosopher is based on his theories on childhood, his work on religious toleration and his concept of the rights of citizens. He he...

John Locke's greatness as a philosopher is based on his theories on childhood, his work on religious toleration and his concept of the rights of citizens. He helped to make us who we are. If you like our films take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): http://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/all/
Brought to you by http://www.theschooloflife.com
Produced in collaboration with Reflective films
http://www.reflectivefilms.co.uk

John Locke's greatness as a philosopher is based on his theories on childhood, his work on religious toleration and his concept of the rights of citizens. He helped to make us who we are. If you like our films take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): http://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/all/
Brought to you by http://www.theschooloflife.com
Produced in collaboration with Reflective films
http://www.reflectivefilms.co.uk

Illiberal Progressives

The modern progressive movement is, in most ways, directly opposed to the classical liberalism of the Enlightenment.
Despite this, progressives are happy to al...

The modern progressive movement is, in most ways, directly opposed to the classical liberalism of the Enlightenment.
Despite this, progressives are happy to allow people to call them liberals because of the fine reputation of liberalism.
Cultural Libertarians: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/24/rise-of-the-cultural-libertarians/
Further information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFnd6IS0DrY&list=PLM9L2W5aOI_1c9VBdAi6efQAZPoZ-UcdC
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The modern progressive movement is, in most ways, directly opposed to the classical liberalism of the Enlightenment.
Despite this, progressives are happy to allow people to call them liberals because of the fine reputation of liberalism.
Cultural Libertarians: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/24/rise-of-the-cultural-libertarians/
Further information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFnd6IS0DrY&list=PLM9L2W5aOI_1c9VBdAi6efQAZPoZ-UcdC
Sources: http://pastebin.com/aZExEEEP
Livestream Channel:
http://tinyurl.com/pnss243
Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SargonofAkkad/
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The Neuroscience of Enlightenment, with Dr. Andrew Newberg

Enlightenment is a traditionally mystical and slippery concept, but when it is subjected to the rigors of empirical analysis, there is a lot to be learned about...

Enlightenment is a traditionally mystical and slippery concept, but when it is subjected to the rigors of empirical analysis, there is a lot to be learned about our brains and ourselves. Dr. Andrew Newberg, who has put enlightenment through a battery of scientific tests, says there are actually two kinds of enlightenment: lowercase-e enlightenment, which changes our opinions about the world, and Enlightenment, which changes our essence, i.e. how we think of life, death, God, etc.
Capital-e Enlightenment is notable because of how people report the experience anecdotally and how it changes the brain. Whatever sensation accompanies the experience of Enlightenment — whether light, or music, or color — it tends to be the most intense experience a person has had with that element. And this intensity is reflected in the brain's limbic system, which processes emotion, and its parietal lobe, which organizes our sensory information to create sensations of time, space, and self.
When people experience Enlightenment, they frequently report losing their sense of self, and scientific analysis confirms that brain activity is a driving cause of this sensation. And while Enlightenment is typically associated with religious individuals like Mother Teresa or the Buddha, people from all walks of life experience essence-changing events — sometimes just walking down the street, says Newberg.
What's more, these experiences can be purposefully induced through the use of pharmacological substances like LSD or hallucinogenic mushrooms. And while these experiences may seem aberrant from so-called real life, Dr. Newberg argues that we come hard-wired ready to have them. Perhaps Enlightenment experiences are like a pair of glasses, he says: we are born into the world with bad vision until we experience corrective lenses. Whether these lenses are applied to our eyes or to our brains may matter little in an epistemological sense.
Newberg's latest book is How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain: TheNew Science of Transformationhttp://www.indiebound.org/book/9781594633454
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Enlightenment is a traditionally mystical and slippery concept, but when it is subjected to the rigors of empirical analysis, there is a lot to be learned about our brains and ourselves. Dr. Andrew Newberg, who has put enlightenment through a battery of scientific tests, says there are actually two kinds of enlightenment: lowercase-e enlightenment, which changes our opinions about the world, and Enlightenment, which changes our essence, i.e. how we think of life, death, God, etc.
Capital-e Enlightenment is notable because of how people report the experience anecdotally and how it changes the brain. Whatever sensation accompanies the experience of Enlightenment — whether light, or music, or color — it tends to be the most intense experience a person has had with that element. And this intensity is reflected in the brain's limbic system, which processes emotion, and its parietal lobe, which organizes our sensory information to create sensations of time, space, and self.
When people experience Enlightenment, they frequently report losing their sense of self, and scientific analysis confirms that brain activity is a driving cause of this sensation. And while Enlightenment is typically associated with religious individuals like Mother Teresa or the Buddha, people from all walks of life experience essence-changing events — sometimes just walking down the street, says Newberg.
What's more, these experiences can be purposefully induced through the use of pharmacological substances like LSD or hallucinogenic mushrooms. And while these experiences may seem aberrant from so-called real life, Dr. Newberg argues that we come hard-wired ready to have them. Perhaps Enlightenment experiences are like a pair of glasses, he says: we are born into the world with bad vision until we experience corrective lenses. Whether these lenses are applied to our eyes or to our brains may matter little in an epistemological sense.
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POLITICAL THEORY - Adam Smith

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Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scien...

Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data: In seventy-five jaw-dropping graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. This progress is not the result of some cosmic force. It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing.
Far from being a naïve hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. The Enlightenment project swims against currents of human nature — tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, magical thinking — which demagogues are all too willing to exploit. Many commentators, committed to political, religious, or romantic ideologies, fight a rearguard action against it. The result is a corrosive fatalism and a willingness to wreck the precious institutions of liberal democracy and global cooperation.
With intellectual depth and literary flair, Enlightenment Now makes the case for reason, science, and humanism: the ideals we need to confront our problems and continue our progress.

Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data: In seventy-five jaw-dropping graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. This progress is not the result of some cosmic force. It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing.
Far from being a naïve hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. The Enlightenment project swims against currents of human nature — tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, magical thinking — which demagogues are all too willing to exploit. Many commentators, committed to political, religious, or romantic ideologies, fight a rearguard action against it. The result is a corrosive fatalism and a willingness to wreck the precious institutions of liberal democracy and global cooperation.
With intellectual depth and literary flair, Enlightenment Now makes the case for reason, science, and humanism: the ideals we need to confront our problems and continue our progress.

Illiberal Progressives

The modern progressive movement is, in most ways, directly opposed to the classical liberalism of the Enlightenment.
Despite this, progressives are happy to allow people to call them liberals because of the fine reputation of liberalism.
Cultural Libertarians: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/24/rise-of-the-cultural-libertarians/
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Patrick J. Deneen: “The End of Liberalism?”

In a lecture drawn from his forthcoming book, “Why Liberalism Failed,” Notre Dame political theorist Patrick J. Deneen argues that liberalism's failure is the predictable result of liberalism's success, and thus cannot be solved by more or better liberalism. Is there a way forward “After Liberalism”?
The Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture hosted Patrick J. Deneen (University of Notre Dame) on January 26, 2017 for a public lecture in the Democracy and its Discontents lecture series.

Political Liberalism and its End

An interesting discussion between Patrick Deneen and Scott Stephens on political liberalism. Political liberalism has been an extraordinarily successful doctrine, freeing the individual from custom, tribe, and tradition. The self-interested, self-directing individual has triumphed. But that great achievement may have come at a heavy cost. Unacceptable levels of inequality and the rise of a new global meritocratic ruling class are two symptoms of a political system being lauded as the natural end point of history.
This is from an episode of the Philosopher’s Zone podcast with guest Patrick Deneen and interviewer Scott Stephens. The presenter is Joe Gelonesi and the producer is DianeDean. You can find the podcast here: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone. You can...

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Gandhi and the Political Enlightenment

The political enlightenment of the West articulated ideals that had no substantial counterpart in the spiritual traditions of Asia according to this event’s featured speaker, Akeel Bilgrami, a leading philosopher and political and cultural commentator. Yet Gandhi, appealing precisely to those traditions, managed to construct a radical political philosophy. In what ways was Gandhi modern despite his explicit opposition to modernity? Is Gandhi relevant to our own time and politics? Dr. Bilgrami presents Gandhi's political philosophy to explore these questions and other contemporary concerns of religion, politics and culture.
Akeel Bilgrami currently holds the Sidney MorgenbesserChair of Philosophy at Columbia University, where he is also a founding member of the Committee on Global Though...

Enlightenment By Redpill

The Liberal American World Order: Prof. Alexander Dugin on JaysAnalysis

Prof. Alexander Dugin is an author and former advisor to Vladimir Putin. was gracious enough to speak with me in this in-depth philosophical discussion that covers a wide range of topic, including: The origins of modern liberalism in the Enlightenment era, the problems of atomistic individualism, the anti-metaphysical stance of Anglo-saxon and Scottish empiricists, how this philosophy was mirrored in the Calvinist reformers, and the desacralization of Nature in the West. From there, we discuss the 'quantification' of reality that resulted from that period's mechanistic view of the kosmos and how this led to the techno-fetishism of our day and transhumanism, resulting in the attempt of destroying all collective groupings and ontological categories, including family, gender, etc. Profess...

Steven Pinker Wants Enlightenment Now!

America, observers are fond of saying, is the only country based upon an idea. That idea—that all men and women are created equal and have inalienable rights to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness—is directly informed by the Enlightenment, the movement that dominated ideas and culture in the 18th century.
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Illiberal Progressives

The modern progressive movement is, in most ways, directly opposed to the classical liberalism of the Enlightenment.
Despite this, progressives are happy to al...

The modern progressive movement is, in most ways, directly opposed to the classical liberalism of the Enlightenment.
Despite this, progressives are happy to allow people to call them liberals because of the fine reputation of liberalism.
Cultural Libertarians: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/24/rise-of-the-cultural-libertarians/
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The modern progressive movement is, in most ways, directly opposed to the classical liberalism of the Enlightenment.
Despite this, progressives are happy to allow people to call them liberals because of the fine reputation of liberalism.
Cultural Libertarians: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/24/rise-of-the-cultural-libertarians/
Further information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFnd6IS0DrY&list=PLM9L2W5aOI_1c9VBdAi6efQAZPoZ-UcdC
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Patrick J. Deneen: “The End of Liberalism?”

In a lecture drawn from his forthcoming book, “Why Liberalism Failed,” Notre Dame political theorist Patrick J. Deneen argues that liberalism's failure is the p...

In a lecture drawn from his forthcoming book, “Why Liberalism Failed,” Notre Dame political theorist Patrick J. Deneen argues that liberalism's failure is the predictable result of liberalism's success, and thus cannot be solved by more or better liberalism. Is there a way forward “After Liberalism”?
The Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture hosted Patrick J. Deneen (University of Notre Dame) on January 26, 2017 for a public lecture in the Democracy and its Discontents lecture series.

In a lecture drawn from his forthcoming book, “Why Liberalism Failed,” Notre Dame political theorist Patrick J. Deneen argues that liberalism's failure is the predictable result of liberalism's success, and thus cannot be solved by more or better liberalism. Is there a way forward “After Liberalism”?
The Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture hosted Patrick J. Deneen (University of Notre Dame) on January 26, 2017 for a public lecture in the Democracy and its Discontents lecture series.

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Jim Reed (TaylorProfessor of German, University of Oxford) discusses his book Light in Germany: Scenes from an UnknownEnlightenment with Joachim Whaley (Professor of German History and Thought, University of Cambridge) and Kevin Hilliard (Lecturer in German, University of Oxford). The event is chaired by Ritchie Robertson (Taylor Professor of German, University of Oxford) About the book: Germany’s political and cultural past from ancient times through World War II has dimmed the legacy of its Enlightenment, which these days is far outshone by those of France and Scotland. In this book, T. J. Reed clears the dust away from eighteenth-century Germany, bringing the likes of Kant, Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, and Gotthold Lessing into a coherent and focused beam that shines within European intellectual history and reasserts the important role of Germany’s Enlightenment. Reed looks closely at the arguments, achievements, conflicts, and controversies of these major thinkers and how their development of a lucid and active liberal thinking matured in the late eighteenth century into an imaginative branching that ran through philosophy, theology, literature, historiography, science, and politics. He traces the various pathways of their thought and how one engendered another, from the principle of thinking for oneself to the development of a critical epistemology; from literature’s assessment of the past to the formulation of a poetic ideal of human development. Ultimately, Reed shows how the ideas of the German Enlightenment have proven their value in modern secular democracies and are still of great relevance—despite their frequent dismissal—to us in the twenty-first century.

Jim Reed (TaylorProfessor of German, University of Oxford) discusses his book Light in Germany: Scenes from an UnknownEnlightenment with Joachim Whaley (Professor of German History and Thought, University of Cambridge) and Kevin Hilliard (Lecturer in German, University of Oxford). The event is chaired by Ritchie Robertson (Taylor Professor of German, University of Oxford) About the book: Germany’s political and cultural past from ancient times through World War II has dimmed the legacy of its Enlightenment, which these days is far outshone by those of France and Scotland. In this book, T. J. Reed clears the dust away from eighteenth-century Germany, bringing the likes of Kant, Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, and Gotthold Lessing into a coherent and focused beam that shines within European intellectual history and reasserts the important role of Germany’s Enlightenment. Reed looks closely at the arguments, achievements, conflicts, and controversies of these major thinkers and how their development of a lucid and active liberal thinking matured in the late eighteenth century into an imaginative branching that ran through philosophy, theology, literature, historiography, science, and politics. He traces the various pathways of their thought and how one engendered another, from the principle of thinking for oneself to the development of a critical epistemology; from literature’s assessment of the past to the formulation of a poetic ideal of human development. Ultimately, Reed shows how the ideas of the German Enlightenment have proven their value in modern secular democracies and are still of great relevance—despite their frequent dismissal—to us in the twenty-first century.

An interesting discussion between Patrick Deneen and Scott Stephens on political liberalism. Political liberalism has been an extraordinarily successful doctrine, freeing the individual from custom, tribe, and tradition. The self-interested, self-directing individual has triumphed. But that great achievement may have come at a heavy cost. Unacceptable levels of inequality and the rise of a new global meritocratic ruling class are two symptoms of a political system being lauded as the natural end point of history.
This is from an episode of the Philosopher’s Zone podcast with guest Patrick Deneen and interviewer Scott Stephens. The presenter is Joe Gelonesi and the producer is DianeDean. You can find the podcast here: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone. You can find the specific episode here: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/political-philosophy-in-the-world:-liberalism/7400650

An interesting discussion between Patrick Deneen and Scott Stephens on political liberalism. Political liberalism has been an extraordinarily successful doctrine, freeing the individual from custom, tribe, and tradition. The self-interested, self-directing individual has triumphed. But that great achievement may have come at a heavy cost. Unacceptable levels of inequality and the rise of a new global meritocratic ruling class are two symptoms of a political system being lauded as the natural end point of history.
This is from an episode of the Philosopher’s Zone podcast with guest Patrick Deneen and interviewer Scott Stephens. The presenter is Joe Gelonesi and the producer is DianeDean. You can find the podcast here: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone. You can find the specific episode here: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/political-philosophy-in-the-world:-liberalism/7400650

Gandhi and the Political Enlightenment

The political enlightenment of the West articulated ideals that had no substantial counterpart in the spiritual traditions of Asia according to this event’s fea...

The political enlightenment of the West articulated ideals that had no substantial counterpart in the spiritual traditions of Asia according to this event’s featured speaker, Akeel Bilgrami, a leading philosopher and political and cultural commentator. Yet Gandhi, appealing precisely to those traditions, managed to construct a radical political philosophy. In what ways was Gandhi modern despite his explicit opposition to modernity? Is Gandhi relevant to our own time and politics? Dr. Bilgrami presents Gandhi's political philosophy to explore these questions and other contemporary concerns of religion, politics and culture.
Akeel Bilgrami currently holds the Sidney MorgenbesserChair of Philosophy at Columbia University, where he is also a founding member of the Committee on Global Thought and the Director of the South AsianInstitute. Bilgrami is a widely published author and public intellectual, writing on philosophy, politics, religion and culture with a special interest in Indian politics and history as well as the politics of the Islamic world.
Nicholas Dirks became the 10th chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley in 2013. A renowned historian and anthropologist, he is a leader in higher education and well-known for his advocacy for accessible, high-quality undergraduate education in the liberal arts and sciences, to the globalization of the university, and innovation across disciplines.
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The political enlightenment of the West articulated ideals that had no substantial counterpart in the spiritual traditions of Asia according to this event’s featured speaker, Akeel Bilgrami, a leading philosopher and political and cultural commentator. Yet Gandhi, appealing precisely to those traditions, managed to construct a radical political philosophy. In what ways was Gandhi modern despite his explicit opposition to modernity? Is Gandhi relevant to our own time and politics? Dr. Bilgrami presents Gandhi's political philosophy to explore these questions and other contemporary concerns of religion, politics and culture.
Akeel Bilgrami currently holds the Sidney MorgenbesserChair of Philosophy at Columbia University, where he is also a founding member of the Committee on Global Thought and the Director of the South AsianInstitute. Bilgrami is a widely published author and public intellectual, writing on philosophy, politics, religion and culture with a special interest in Indian politics and history as well as the politics of the Islamic world.
Nicholas Dirks became the 10th chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley in 2013. A renowned historian and anthropologist, he is a leader in higher education and well-known for his advocacy for accessible, high-quality undergraduate education in the liberal arts and sciences, to the globalization of the university, and innovation across disciplines.
Co-presented with the Society for Art and Cultural Heritage of India (SACHI), http://www.sachi.org.

Prof. Alexander Dugin is an author and former advisor to Vladimir Putin. was gracious enough to speak with me in this in-depth philosophical discussion that covers a wide range of topic, including: The origins of modern liberalism in the Enlightenment era, the problems of atomistic individualism, the anti-metaphysical stance of Anglo-saxon and Scottish empiricists, how this philosophy was mirrored in the Calvinist reformers, and the desacralization of Nature in the West. From there, we discuss the 'quantification' of reality that resulted from that period's mechanistic view of the kosmos and how this led to the techno-fetishism of our day and transhumanism, resulting in the attempt of destroying all collective groupings and ontological categories, including family, gender, etc. ProfessorDugin explains the FourthPolitical Theory and the importance of Heidegger and the European logos, as well as how evil can have its own inner 'logic' as we see "pure Satanism" manifested in the West. If you like this talk, please subscribe at JaysAnalysis.com for 4.95 a month at the PayPal link.
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Prof. Alexander Dugin is an author and former advisor to Vladimir Putin. was gracious enough to speak with me in this in-depth philosophical discussion that covers a wide range of topic, including: The origins of modern liberalism in the Enlightenment era, the problems of atomistic individualism, the anti-metaphysical stance of Anglo-saxon and Scottish empiricists, how this philosophy was mirrored in the Calvinist reformers, and the desacralization of Nature in the West. From there, we discuss the 'quantification' of reality that resulted from that period's mechanistic view of the kosmos and how this led to the techno-fetishism of our day and transhumanism, resulting in the attempt of destroying all collective groupings and ontological categories, including family, gender, etc. ProfessorDugin explains the FourthPolitical Theory and the importance of Heidegger and the European logos, as well as how evil can have its own inner 'logic' as we see "pure Satanism" manifested in the West. If you like this talk, please subscribe at JaysAnalysis.com for 4.95 a month at the PayPal link.
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Steven Pinker Wants Enlightenment Now!

America, observers are fond of saying, is the only country based upon an idea. That idea—that all men and women are created equal and have inalienable rights to...

America, observers are fond of saying, is the only country based upon an idea. That idea—that all men and women are created equal and have inalienable rights to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness—is directly informed by the Enlightenment, the movement that dominated ideas and culture in the 18th century.
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But are we still an Enlightenment nation?
"The Enlightenment principle that we can apply reason and sympathy to enhance human flourishing may seem obvious," writes Steven Pinker in his new book Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress. "I wrote this book because I have come to realize that it's not."
Pinker is a linguist who teaches at Harvard and is the author of The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Blank Slate, and How the Mind Works. He's been named on the top 100 most influential intellectuals by both Time and Foreign Policy.
In this wide-ranging interview with Reason's Nick Gillespie, Pinker explains why he thinks Pope Francis is a problem when it comes to capitalism, nuclear energy is a solution to climate change, and why libertarians need to lighten up when it comes to regulation. He also makes the case for studying the humanities as essential to intellectual honesty and seriousness even as he attacks that "cluster of ideas, which is not the same as the humanities, but just happens to have descended over large sectors of the academic humanities: "the deep hatred of the institutions of modernity, the equation of liberal democracy with fascism, the feeling that society is in an ever-worsening spiral of decline, and the lack of appreciation, I think, that the institutions of liberal democracy have made the humanities possible, made them flourish."
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America, observers are fond of saying, is the only country based upon an idea. That idea—that all men and women are created equal and have inalienable rights to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness—is directly informed by the Enlightenment, the movement that dominated ideas and culture in the 18th century.
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But are we still an Enlightenment nation?
"The Enlightenment principle that we can apply reason and sympathy to enhance human flourishing may seem obvious," writes Steven Pinker in his new book Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress. "I wrote this book because I have come to realize that it's not."
Pinker is a linguist who teaches at Harvard and is the author of The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Blank Slate, and How the Mind Works. He's been named on the top 100 most influential intellectuals by both Time and Foreign Policy.
In this wide-ranging interview with Reason's Nick Gillespie, Pinker explains why he thinks Pope Francis is a problem when it comes to capitalism, nuclear energy is a solution to climate change, and why libertarians need to lighten up when it comes to regulation. He also makes the case for studying the humanities as essential to intellectual honesty and seriousness even as he attacks that "cluster of ideas, which is not the same as the humanities, but just happens to have descended over large sectors of the academic humanities: "the deep hatred of the institutions of modernity, the equation of liberal democracy with fascism, the feeling that society is in an ever-worsening spiral of decline, and the lack of appreciation, I think, that the institutions of liberal democracy have made the humanities possible, made them flourish."
For full text, links, credits, and downloadable versions: https://reason.com/reasontv/2018/03/22/steven-pinker-enlightenment-now
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Steven Pinker is a cognitive psychologist at Harvard University and the author of the new bestselling book “Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress.” Steven joins Dave for a discussion on science, identity politics, free speech, democracy, and his hope for humanity. ***Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=RubinReport
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POLITICAL THEORY - John Locke

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Illiberal Progressives

The modern progressive movement is, in most ways, directly opposed to the classical liberalism of the Enlightenment.
Despite this, progressives are happy to allow people to call them liberals because of the fine reputation of liberalism.
Cultural Libertarians: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/24/rise-of-the-cultural-libertarians/
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The Neuroscience of Enlightenment, with Dr. Andrew Newberg

Enlightenment is a traditionally mystical and slippery concept, but when it is subjected t...

The Neuroscience of Enlightenment, with Dr. Andrew Newberg

Enlightenment is a traditionally mystical and slippery concept, but when it is subjected to the rigors of empirical analysis, there is a lot to be learned about our brains and ourselves. Dr. Andrew Newberg, who has put enlightenment through a battery of scientific tests, says there are actually two kinds of enlightenment: lowercase-e enlightenment, which changes our opinions about the world, and Enlightenment, which changes our essence, i.e. how we think of life, death, God, etc.
Capital-e Enlightenment is notable because of how people report the experience anecdotally and how it changes the brain. Whatever sensation accompanies the experience of Enlightenment — whether light, or music, or color — it tends to be the most intense experience a person has had with that element. And this intensity is reflected in the brain's limbic system, which processes emotion, and its parietal lobe, which organizes our sensory information to create sensations of time, space, and self.
When people experience Enlightenment, they frequently report losing their sense of self, and scientific analysis confirms that brain activity is a driving cause of this sensation. And while Enlightenment is typically associated with religious individuals like Mother Teresa or the Buddha, people from all walks of life experience essence-changing events — sometimes just walking down the street, says Newberg.
What's more, these experiences can be purposefully induced through the use of pharmacological substances like LSD or hallucinogenic mushrooms. And while these experiences may seem aberrant from so-called real life, Dr. Newberg argues that we come hard-wired ready to have them. Perhaps Enlightenment experiences are like a pair of glasses, he says: we are born into the world with bad vision until we experience corrective lenses. Whether these lenses are applied to our eyes or to our brains may matter little in an epistemological sense.
Newberg's latest book is How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain: TheNew Science of Transformationhttp://www.indiebound.org/book/9781594633454
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Enlightenment reason, liberalism, and science

This audiobook edition of Explaining Postmodernism is read by the author.
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Enlightenment reason, liberalism, and science

This audiobook edition of Explaining Postmodernism is read by the author.
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11:54

The French Revolution: Crash Course World History #29

In which John Green examines the French Revolution, and gets into how and why it differed ...

The French Revolution: Crash Course World History #29

In which John Green examines the French Revolution, and gets into how and why it differed from the American Revolution. Was it the serial authoritarian regimes? The guillotine? The Reign of Terror? All of this and more contributed to the French Revolution not being quite as revolutionary as it could have been. France endured multiple constitutions, the heads of heads of state literally rolled, and then they ended up with a megalomaniacal little emperor by the name of Napoleon. But how did all of this change the world, and how did it lead to other, more successful revolutions around the world? Watch this video and find out. Spoiler alert: Marie Antoinette never said, "Let them eat cake." Sorry.
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Theory in Action: Liberalism

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International Relations – Liberal Theory (2/7)

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POLITICAL THEORY - Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes believed that it is always better to have security rather than liberty in a ...

POLITICAL THEORY - Thomas Hobbes

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Illiberal Progressives

The modern progressive movement is, in most ways, directly opposed to the classical liberalism of the Enlightenment.
Despite this, progressives are happy to allow people to call them liberals because of the fine reputation of liberalism.
Cultural Libertarians: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/24/rise-of-the-cultural-libertarians/
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Patrick J. Deneen: “The End of Liberalism?”

In a lecture drawn from his forthcoming book, “Why Liberalism Failed,” Notre Dame political theorist Patrick J. Deneen argues that liberalism's failure is the predictable result of liberalism's success, and thus cannot be solved by more or better liberalism. Is there a way forward “After Liberalism”?
The Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture hosted Patrick J. Deneen (University of Notre Dame) on January 26, 2017 for a public lecture in the Democracy and its Discontents lecture series.

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37:57

The Light in Germany: Scenes from an Unknown Enlightenment

Jim Reed (Taylor Professor of German, University of Oxford) discusses his book Light in Ge...

The Light in Germany: Scenes from an Unknown Enlightenment

Jim Reed (TaylorProfessor of German, University of Oxford) discusses his book Light in Germany: Scenes from an UnknownEnlightenment with Joachim Whaley (Professor of German History and Thought, University of Cambridge) and Kevin Hilliard (Lecturer in German, University of Oxford). The event is chaired by Ritchie Robertson (Taylor Professor of German, University of Oxford) About the book: Germany’s political and cultural past from ancient times through World War II has dimmed the legacy of its Enlightenment, which these days is far outshone by those of France and Scotland. In this book, T. J. Reed clears the dust away from eighteenth-century Germany, bringing the likes of Kant, Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, and Gotthold Lessing into a coherent and focused beam that shines within European intellectual history and reasserts the important role of Germany’s Enlightenment. Reed looks closely at the arguments, achievements, conflicts, and controversies of these major thinkers and how their development of a lucid and active liberal thinking matured in the late eighteenth century into an imaginative branching that ran through philosophy, theology, literature, historiography, science, and politics. He traces the various pathways of their thought and how one engendered another, from the principle of thinking for oneself to the development of a critical epistemology; from literature’s assessment of the past to the formulation of a poetic ideal of human development. Ultimately, Reed shows how the ideas of the German Enlightenment have proven their value in modern secular democracies and are still of great relevance—despite their frequent dismissal—to us in the twenty-first century.

23:29

Political Liberalism and its End

An interesting discussion between Patrick Deneen and Scott Stephens on political liberalis...

Political Liberalism and its End

An interesting discussion between Patrick Deneen and Scott Stephens on political liberalism. Political liberalism has been an extraordinarily successful doctrine, freeing the individual from custom, tribe, and tradition. The self-interested, self-directing individual has triumphed. But that great achievement may have come at a heavy cost. Unacceptable levels of inequality and the rise of a new global meritocratic ruling class are two symptoms of a political system being lauded as the natural end point of history.
This is from an episode of the Philosopher’s Zone podcast with guest Patrick Deneen and interviewer Scott Stephens. The presenter is Joe Gelonesi and the producer is DianeDean. You can find the podcast here: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone. You can find the specific episode here: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/political-philosophy-in-the-world:-liberalism/7400650

1:31:23

Gandhi and the Political Enlightenment

The political enlightenment of the West articulated ideals that had no substantial counter...

Gandhi and the Political Enlightenment

The political enlightenment of the West articulated ideals that had no substantial counterpart in the spiritual traditions of Asia according to this event’s featured speaker, Akeel Bilgrami, a leading philosopher and political and cultural commentator. Yet Gandhi, appealing precisely to those traditions, managed to construct a radical political philosophy. In what ways was Gandhi modern despite his explicit opposition to modernity? Is Gandhi relevant to our own time and politics? Dr. Bilgrami presents Gandhi's political philosophy to explore these questions and other contemporary concerns of religion, politics and culture.
Akeel Bilgrami currently holds the Sidney MorgenbesserChair of Philosophy at Columbia University, where he is also a founding member of the Committee on Global Thought and the Director of the South AsianInstitute. Bilgrami is a widely published author and public intellectual, writing on philosophy, politics, religion and culture with a special interest in Indian politics and history as well as the politics of the Islamic world.
Nicholas Dirks became the 10th chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley in 2013. A renowned historian and anthropologist, he is a leader in higher education and well-known for his advocacy for accessible, high-quality undergraduate education in the liberal arts and sciences, to the globalization of the university, and innovation across disciplines.
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25:00

19th Century Isms (AP European History)

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As some educators worry&nbsp;liberal arts education on college campuses is going the way of the flip cell phone, Emory University wants to ramp up its offerings in those fields. The university’s College of Arts and Sciences announced Tuesday it plans to advance itself as “a leader for the liberal arts and sciences, both within the university and beyond.”....

Iran is marking the 36th anniversary of the liberation of the southwestern city of Khorramshahr from forces of the ex-Iraqi dictator’s regime in the course of the eight-year war imposed on the Islamic Republic in 1980s....

Liberal arts majors are more creative, adaptable and better at learning, says Scott Hartley in his book The Fuzzy And The Techie... Here is where liberal arts majors, with their knowledge of classical philosophy, ethics and history, can bring in a better perspective....

Top security and military officials Thursday denounced ongoing Israeli "massacres" as Lebanon is set to commemorate Liberation Day, which marks the withdrawal of Israeli occupying forces from south Lebanon in 2000... ....